Author Topic: Our World: Trump’s great and ingenious gifts By Caroline B. Glick December 7, 2017  (Read 348 times)

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Offline Blizzardnh

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  With his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump gave a Hanukka gift to the Jewish people. But he also gave a Christmas gift to the American people.

Trump’s gift to Israel is not merely that 68 years after Israel declared Jerusalem its capital, the US finally recognized Israel’s capital.

In his declaration, Trump said, “Israel has made its capital in the city of Jerusalem, the capital the Jewish people established in ancient times.”
 By stating this simple truth, Trump fully rejected the anti-Israel legacy of his predecessor Barack Obama.

In his speech in Cairo in 2009, Obama intimated that Israel’s legitimacy is rooted in the Holocaust, rather than in the Jewish nation’s millennial attachment to the Land of Israel. Whereas the Balfour Declaration and the League of Nations Mandate rooted the Jewish people’s sovereign rights to the Land of Israel in its 3,500-year relationship with it, Obama said that Israel is nothing more than a refugee camp located in an inconvenient area. In so doing, he gave credence to the anti-Israel slander that Israel is a colonialist power.

By asserting the real basis for Israel’s legitimacy, Trump made clear that the Jewish people is indigenous to the Land of Israel. He also made it US policy to view Israel’s right to exist, like its right to its capital city, as unconditional.

Trump’s extraordinary gift to Israel was an act of political and moral courage. It was also a stroke of strategic brilliance.

To understand why it was both courageous and wise, consider the political, institutional and geopolitical contexts in which Trump acted.

more. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Our-World-Trumps-great-and-ingenious-gifts-517417

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"By stating this simple truth, Trump fully rejected the anti-Israel legacy of his predecessor barack obama."

obama -- the incredible, shrinking former [phony] president...

Aside:
Who among the other 2016 Republican presidential candidates would have done this?
NONE of them.
NOT ONE.

Not Rubio (hah!)
Not Bush (HAH!)
Not (what's that postman's son's name, forgot already?)  ;)
Not Fiorina
Not even Ted Cruz. Nope.

Only Mr. Trump had the intestinal fortitude to go through with this.
Good on 'im!

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"By stating this simple truth, Trump fully rejected the anti-Israel legacy of his predecessor barack obama."

obama -- the incredible, shrinking former [phony] president...

Aside:
Who among the other 2016 Republican presidential candidates would have done this?
NONE of them.
NOT ONE.

Not Rubio (hah!)
Not Bush (HAH!)
Not (what's that postman's son's name, forgot already?)  ;)
Not Fiorina
Not even Ted Cruz. Nope.

Only Mr. Trump had the intestinal fortitude to go through with this.
Good on 'im!


You're probably right. Cruz would likely put off what he'd like to do to adhere to 'proper procedure.'